unlikely:Again, I really want to know why it matters who he puts his penis in.

If a man charged with keeping our highest level foreign secrets can't keep a secret, much less avoid temptation, then he probably shouldn't get a top secret clearance much less head of the CIA. But, that said, I don't really care about the sleeping with part. I'm more interested in the web of women with high end Washingtonians. The story is fascinating if nothing more.

Also...there is the Bhengazi thing...where the General's vagina said that the CIA was keeping prisoners...which it isn't supposed to be doing. And that the attack on the consulate was related to prisoners. So, yeah, his pillow talk is now a state security risk.

They're not just supposed to shoot the bastards, they're supposed to cut out their living guts and use them to grease the treads on their tanks. They're supposed to murder those lousy Afghan bastards by the bushel.

PainInTheASP:They're not just supposed to shoot the bastards, they're supposed to cut out their living guts and use them to grease the treads on their tanks. They're supposed to murder those lousy Afghan bastards by the bushel.

"Well, don't let that trouble you," General Petraeus continued with a careless flick of his wrist. "Just pass on the work I assign you to somebody else and trust to luck. We call that delegation and responsibility. Somewhere down near the lowest level of this coordinated organization I run are people who get the work done when it reaches them, and everything manages to run along smoothly without too much effort on my part. I suppose that's because I am a good executive. Nothing we do in this large department of ours is really very important, and there's never any rush. On the other hand, it is important that we let people know we do a great deal of it. Let me know if you find yourself shorthanded. I've already put in a requisition for two majors, four captains and sixteen lieutenants to give you a hand. While none of the work we do is very important, it is important that we do a great deal of it. Don't you agree?"

unlikely:Again, I really want to know why it matters who he puts his penis in.

It doesn't matter who. It only matters that he had an affair. Whoever he had an affair with could have blackmailed him. If you don't accept that, then defer to Petraeus himself. Clearly Petraeus realized it mattered, that's why he resigned.

The fact is that none of our generals have led us to a victory since men like Patton and my grandfather, Lucian King Truscott Jr., stormed the beaches of North Africa and southern France with blood in their eyes and military murder on their minds.

I guess Schwarzkopf and Horner were just sitting around the desert with their thumbs up their butts.

cmunic8r99:The fact is that none of our generals have led us to a victory since men like Patton and my grandfather, Lucian King Truscott Jr., stormed the beaches of North Africa and southern France with blood in their eyes and military murder on their minds.

I guess Schwarzkopf and Horner were just sitting around the desert with their thumbs up their butts.

Yeah, everybody thought that was really weird during Gulf War I. They just kept sniffing their thumbs, then sniffing each other's. Really weird stuff. Whole news conferences where that's all they did.

PainInTheASP: They're not just supposed to shoot the bastards, they're supposed to cut out their living guts and use them to grease the treads on their tanks. They're supposed to murder those lousy Afghan bastards by the bushel.

Rommel, you magnificent bastard. I READ YOUR BOOK!!!

We might need leaders of a certain type, and it appears that Petraeus doesn't fit the Patton.

Sounds like the "they wouldn't let us win" narrative from First Blood is being trotted out for Iraq and Afghanistan. Sure, we dropped more bombs on Vietnam than the entirety of all nations in WWII dropped on each other, but we just didn't do it enough. More bombs would have made them become a free market economy with one-party rule... sooner.

Afghanistan could easily be subjugated if only we were willing to be more brutal than the Soviets. We just aren't raping enough.

I_C_Weener:unlikely: Again, I really want to know why it matters who he puts his penis in.

If a man charged with keeping our highest level foreign secrets can't keep a secret, much less avoid temptation, then he probably shouldn't get a top secret clearance much less head of the CIA. But, that said, I don't really care about the sleeping with part. I'm more interested in the web of women with high end Washingtonians. The story is fascinating if nothing more.

Pretty much on in agreement with this, but the web-of-women is somewhat disgusting and scary at the same time. Some self-claimed-ambassador twit with a phony charity gets to rub elbows with people charged with the responsibilities of a 4-star general and who knows who else?

FTFA: "Though strutting military peacocks go back to Alexander's time, our first was MacArthur..."

Right in the first paragraph, I started thinking this guy didn't know what he was talking about. I think we can safely say that our first strutting peacock of a general was probably Geo. A. Custer. Then came Teddy Roosevelt and I'm sure many others in between.

I seen Petraeus interviewed. He didn't strike me as a strutting peacock or a self-proclaimed hero. He seemed measured, quiet, and contemplative. He is very well respected by command and troops alike. So I must conclude that Mr. Truscott is a dick.

I_C_Weener:Also...there is the Bhengazi thing...where the General's vagina said that the CIA was keeping prisoners...which it isn't supposed to be doing. And that the attack on the consulate was related to prisoners. So, yeah, his pillow talk is now a state security risk.

The fact is that none of our generals have led us to a victory since men like Patton and my grandfather, Lucian King Truscott Jr., stormed the beaches of North Africa and southern France with blood in their eyes and military murder on their minds.

Quite true. That is how you WIN wars. If you don't want to win, don't get into them. It's revolting that these present day pussy generals don't put their foot down and tell these idiot politicians that war IS NOT a surgical instrument. You can't kill individual ants with a sledgehammer. You can't go halfway. And the tragedy is that the finest people our society produces are sent into these unwinnable situations and get killed or maimed FOR NOTHING.

Fight to win or don't go. If the politicians won't accept that, the Generals should resign rather than agree. But the bureaucrat generals love their status and perks too much, and don't want to give it up, so they betray the fighting men and agree to these ridiculous Rules of Engagement. And our people bleed. For nothing.

I guess Schwarzkopf and Horner were just sitting around the desert with their thumbs up their butts.

Those two did their jobs. It was that pussy Powell who stopped them from anililating the Republican Guard. He was afraid we'ed "look bad". Fark him.